I am a collector of words

Words feed me, free me, comfort, uplift and heal me. I've been saving my favorites in books, handwritten over the years and thought that perhaps in sharing them, not only am I preserving them for myself, but perhaps others may also find healing in them as I have.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Teachers

WHO’S ON YOUR LIST?

"Boss, coworker,
spouse, roommate, mother, father, child—who are the people you really
dislike and wish would simply go away? Be grateful to them: they’re your
own special gurus, showing up right on time to keep you honest.
It’s the troublemakers in your life who cause you to see that you’ve
shut down, that you’ve armored yourself, that you’ve hidden your head in
the sand. If you didn’t get angry at them, if you didn’t get fed up
with them, you would never be able to cultivate patience. If you didn’t
envy them, if you weren’t jealous of them, you would never think to
stretch beyond your mean-spiritedness and try to rejoice in their good
fortune. If you never met your match, you might think you were better
than everybody else and arrogantly criticize their neurotic behavior
rather than do something about your own."